Student/Institution
Bradley M. Kuhnbkuhn@ebb.org
The University of Cincinnati

Scholarship
$21,269 9/98

Bio
Bradley M. Kuhn is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati.
He is currently working towards a Master's degree in computer science.

The goal of his current research is to study and test new ways of
implementing JVM compilers for non-Java languages, using the creation of a
JVM compiler for Perl as a case study. In the past, non-Java language
compilers have been implemented in Java to take advantage of Java's close
ties with the JVM architecture. Mr. Kuhn's work will investigate the
possibilities of using Perl's already existing compiler back-end to compile
Perl to JVM code. Java implementations for some small pieces of Perl may be
used for speed, and we will evaluate the trade-offs in doing such
implementations.

In addition, Mr. Kuhn is also leading the project to create of a freely
redistributable book, _Picking Up Perl_. This book is a tutorial for new
Perl programmers. You can read more about this project at:
http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl